Elizabeth Carter
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Standard Name: Carter, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Carter
Nickname: Mrs Carter
Used Form: A Lady
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was renowned during a long span of the later eighteenth century as a scholar and translator from several languages and the most seriously learned among the Bluestockings. Her English version of Epictetus
was still current into the twentieth century. She was also a poet and a delightful letter-writer.
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Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Montagu | The leading figures in the movement were Montagu herself (who spent freely in hospitality, and who was later dubbed the Queen of the Bluestockings or Queen of the Blues) and Carter
(the most intellectually... |
Travel | Elizabeth Montagu | Her delight in her journey (on which Elizabeth Carter
as well as Bath accompanied her) is reflected in the whimsicality of her letters to England about it. She claimed to have seen mermaids as she... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Montagu | The letters of EM
's youth—to the Duchess of Portland
and to her sister Sarah Scott
—are sparkling, irreverent, and inventive. Some of these were conveyed via Elizabeth Elstob
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Montagu | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
, in a review of this book and of Alice Gaussen
's monograph on Elizabeth Carter
, used them to place the Bluestockings in relation to modern women's behaviour, but she was... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Montagu | The patriotism of EM
's riposte ensured its enthusiastic reception. Readers (among them a brother of Elizabeth Carter
, who refrained from enlightening him) assumed that the anonymity of this authoritative critical voice concealed a... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Miller | Anna Riggs (later |
Residence | Anna Miller | In 1754 Anna Riggs (later |
Friends, Associates | Mary Masters | Among the households where she lived were those of Elizabeth Carter
(who sometimes read her work and discussed it with her) and of Edward Cave
(the proprietor of the Gentleman's Magazine). It was Carter... |
Textual Production | Mary Masters | She had been writing and gathering the material here for at least ten years. The volume was printed for the Author, and dedicated to Lord Burlington
(who subscribed for eight copies). Its publication was... |
Publishing | Mary Masters | This volume was printed for the Author. Its 833 subscribers (for 903 copies) Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press. 1: 409-10 |
Publishing | Anna Maria Mackenzie | This novel is now extremely rare, though a Dublin edition appeared the same year. The subscribers, where their place of residence is listed, come mainly from London and its environs (particularly eastward), with several from... |
Education | Catharine Macaulay | CM
went through the typical education for a girl of her class, with an ill-qualified governess. She also read Roman history (and any history dealing with the issue of liberty) in her father's library with... |
Friends, Associates | Catharine Macaulay | With her husband CM
lived a busy social life. She met Frances Sheridan
after she had become a writer. Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press. 14 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catharine Macaulay | The celebrations also included ringing the church bells and presenting CM
with a gold medal. One of the odes (published at Bath the same year) depicts her as triumphing over other, more conservative women writers:... |
Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | Though CM
's work later became synonymous with radical history, at its first appearance moderate Whigs likeThomas Gray
and Horace Walpole
thought it the most sensible, unaffected, and best history of England that we... |
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